Offers a collection of intimate conversations with 19 of the world's best-known scientists. This book reveal what they still hope to discover-and how their paradigm-changing work entwines with their lives...

This volume of newly transcribed letters documents the travels of the Victorian naturalist Alfred Russel Wallace in the Malay Archipelago, during which he famously discovered natural selection independently of Darwin...

Edited and introduced by Bill Bryson, and with contributions from Richard Dawkins, Margaret Atwood, David Attenborough, Martin Rees and Richard Fortey amongst others, this is a remarkable volume celebrating the...